Sentence examples for this was purported from inspiring English sources

This was purported to be a time machine, which can only go forward but not back in time.

"It is difficult to understand the ecological damage that this is purported to cause.

As this is purported to be a democracy, let us hope that the majority of us can still tell a salesman from a leader.

This is purported to demonstrate (by recourse to a postulated earlier exemplar from which both P75 and B descend) that the Codex Vaticanus accurately reproduces an earlier text from these two biblical books reinforces the reputation the codex held amongst Biblical scholars.

This is purported to reduce sequencing errors, and to permit better distinction between sequencing errors and polymorphisms (Applied Biosystems, 2008).

Evidence for this activity was purported to come from numerous observations that telencephalon ablation perturbed avoidance learning in fish.

This margin of safety was purported to allow for "any species difference in susceptibility, the numerical differences between the test animals and the human population exposed to the hazard, the wider variety of complicating disease processes in the human population, the difficulty of estimating the human intake and the possibility of synergistic action among food additives" [ 29].

It was in this issue where Ninja Gaiden III was purported to be the final Ninja Gaiden game by Tecmo.

The intensity of this effect is purported to be related to the size of the imaging volume.

This paper is purported to investigate a food chain reaction-diffusion predator-prey system with nonlocal delays in a bounded domain with no flux boundary condition.

The measured liver and spleen displacements are thought to reflect the "global" functions of the respiratory muscles and this method is purported to be a good parameter of respiratory muscle endurance and predictor of extubation success [35].